Our research focuses on developing and
applying quantitative methods to address questions in conservation biology and
environmental risk assessment.

We are currently interested in methods
and approaches for predicting the vulnerability of species to global climate
change, human land-use, toxicity and other threats. For more information see
Research.

In a
new
paper, we describe a new approach to develop fully specified population
models (complete with stage structure, stochasticity, and density dependence)
from mark-recapture data. The method, including the source code, the data we
analyzed, and sample results for one species, can be freely downloaded via
github.com/Akcakaya/MAPS-to-Models.

Former post-doc
Kevin Shoemaker
started his new job as Assisstant Professor at the Department of Natural
Resources & Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno.

Former Ph.D. student
Matt Aiello-Lammens started his new job as Assisstant Professor at the
Department of Environmental Science, Pace University, New York.

A new
commentary
in Nature Climate Change reviews recent studies on species vulnerability
to global climate change and discusses the implications of these studies for
conservation policy and future research. Read about our recent publications on
climate change impacts on biodiversity